Conveyer and distributer



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J. P. DORNPELD. GONVEYER AND DISTRIBUTER.

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J. F. DORNFELD.

GONVEYBR AND DISTRIBUTER.'

.No. 565,068. Patented Aug. 4, 1896.

Nrrno STATES- PATENT JOHN F. DORNFELD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CONVEYER AND DlSTRlBUTER.

SPECIFICrLTION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,068, dated August 4, 1896.

Application filed October 5, 1894. Serial No. 524,983. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern/.-

Be it known that 1, J can F. DORNFELD, of Chicago, in the county of Cool: and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Conveyors and Distributors, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide means for conveying for a distance and distributing over a considerable space grain, malt, sugar, salt, or other material, especially such as, being small in individual existence or comminuted, is to be handled in mass or bulk.

The apparatus or mechanism is especially well adapted for conveying and distributing malt in a malt house or kiln, and is shown in connection with a malt-kiln. section.)

The invention consists of the mechanism and its parts and combinations, as herein described and claimed, or their equivalents.

Figure l is a vertical section or diagram of a malt-kiln with my improved mechanism therein. Fig. 2 is a plan view on line 2 2 of Fig. 1 of the malt-kiln and my improved mechanism. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section and elevation of a considerable portion of my improved mechanism. Fig. i is a vertical section on line at 4 of Fig. 3, looking toward the right.

In the drawings, A is the vertical section or diagram of a malt kiln provided with limiting-floors B B and a furnace or heater C. Any other suitable building or framework would be equally well adapted for supporting my improved mechanism.

My improved mechanism is grouped and arranged about a central driven shaft D, which is journaled in and suspended from a beam If] of the malt-kiln. For suspending the shaft revolubly on. the beam a collar I is secured permanently to the shaft, and this collar rests and rides on the end of the journal-box in the beam E. At its lower extremity the shaft D is provided with a beveled pinion D, which meshes with a beveled pinion on the conveyer-shaft G. The conveyor-shaft Gr is provided with a screw or flight G and is mounted revolubly in the closed ends of the conveyor-tube II, which (Illustrated in tube incloses the conveyer-shaft and flight. The conveyer-shaft is in the drawings disposed at a right angle to the shaft D, and the conveyer-tube H is provided with an arm I,

which is pivoted on the shaft D, so that theconveyor-tube is adapted to swing or revolve about the shaft D as a pivot. At its outer extremity the tube H is provided with an idle-wheel K, preferably grooved peripherally, which wheel travels on the annular rail or track L. The circular tracl; L is secured to and supported rigidly on the frame of the malt-kiln. An inclined chute M, the mouth of which opens upwardly and is concentric with the shaft D, extends obliquely to and discharges into the conveyor-tube II at its inner end. The tube II is provided on its under side with a number of ports N at varying distances from the inner end of the tube. These ports are severally closed by a sliding gate N.

It will be understood that malt or grain or other material delivered to the conveyer-tube II through the chute M will by the proper rotation of the shaft G be moved along the conveyor and can be discharged therefrom through any one or more of the ports N, and also that by swinging the tube around its pivot D on the track L the contents of the tube can be discharged at any point in the space inclosed by the circular track L. This will enable the operator to distribute malt or grain readily over the entire floor B.

For bringing the malt, grain, or other material from a distance, or particularly from a supply outside of the building, I provide an auxiliary conveyer, consisting of the tube 0, arranged to receive material from the out side and convenientlyfrom the spout or hopper I, and to discharge its contents at the other extremity through the chute M, arranged to discharge into the chute M. The tube 0 is provided with a spiral conveyor R, the shaft of which is mounted in the ends of the tube 0 and is provided at its inner extremity with a pinion S, meshing with a pinion T, fixed on the shaft D. hen thus arranged, I preferably drive the shaft D by means of the shaft of the conveyor R, which latter shaft is provided with a fast pulley V, which is adapted'to be driven bya belt from a power supply. In those situations where oblique to the shaft D, though the device is more especially desirable Where this conveyer must be disposed horizontally or nearly so.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

,Inwa conveyer and distributer, the combination, of a malt-kiln, a inalting-floor therein, a driven shaft provided with beveled pin- 1OI1S,:L conveyer-tube extending at an angle from the driven shaft, and provided With one or more ports, and having a connection With said driven shaft so as to swing around the same, a conveyer Within the tube, said conveyer provided with a pinion meshing with a pinion of the driven shaft, an auxiliary tube adapted to'discharge into the first-named tube, and a conveyer Within said auxiliary tube, said conveyer provided on its inner end With a pinion meshing with the other pinion of the driven shaft, and provided on its outer end With a pulley, or other driving-Wheel, su bstantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN F. DORNFELD.

WVitnesses:

Oil. BENEDICT,

ANNA V. FAUST. 

